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By Adam Donnelly

SO LONG, SUMMER

Scoopz Ice Cream starts ‘Great Ice Cream Sell-off’ in support of The Mustard Seed Kamloops

Sep 1, 2021 | 4:39 PM

KAMLOOPS — The flowers are fading. Leaves are turning colour.

Gone are the hot, sunny days of summer. Here: the cool, crisp mornings of September. Are you having a hard time believing that fact? So is Mustard Seed Kamloops Managing Director Kelly Thomson.

“Absolutely not,” Thomson says with a chuckle. “But then again, in some cases, it feels like a long summer.”

Between the pandemic and cancelled events, and the wildfire smoke keeping people indoors, it wasn’t the summer Scoopz Ice Cream was hoping for.

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“It’s been challenging,” owner Adrianne Erlandson says. “It’s still been a good year.”

However, the beginning of September means the end of the Scoopz Ice Cream season. Starting Wednesday (Sept. 1), the Great Ice Cream Sell-off is underway at Scoopz.

“Any purchase made at Scoopz, from now until [Sept] 6th, or until we run out of ice cream, a portion of the sales will be donated to The Mustard Seed,” Erlandson explains.

According to Thomson, there are plans in place for those funds.

“Our kitchen has some equipment that needs replacing — one piece of equipment that’s really needed,” Thomson says. “This will give us the ability to purchase that piece of equipment, which will really help out our staff.”

The last shipment of ice cream came in on Monday, so the Scoopz staff has some work ahead of them before the long weekend is over.

“I mean, I’m always worried that I’m going to have so much leftover but we literally sell to the last scoop every year,” Erlandson says. “I’m always a bit nervous going into it, but it always works out in the end.”

If you can’t make it to the shop for a cone or cup, you can always hit up the Mustard Seed Thrift Shop. For a $2 donation, you’ll get entered into a draw for two tubs of Foothills Ice Cream, with the winner announced on Sept. 15th.

“They’re always giving people. They’re always interested in helping us out at The Mustard Seed,” Thomson says of the partnership with Scoopz. “They’ve just been a fantastic partner.”